ModernZ, a Gemini-enabled solution assessment platform for enterprise modernization, today launched ModernZ Assess and ModernZ Applied on Google Cloud Marketplace. The listings give enterprises running on-premises VMware estates a definitive, data-backed blueprint for moving to Google Cloud – at a moment when Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and the demands of AI readiness are forcing immediate modernization decisions across thousands of IT organizations at once.
Enterprise IT leaders face a narrowing window. Broadcom’s transition of VMware to per-Core VCF subscription licensing, hardware price increases, and datacenter energy and space concerns has spiked the cost and risk of staying on-premises. At the same time, AI initiatives are stalling because critical enterprise data assets and workloads remain locked in legacy on-premises infrastructure ill-equipped for AI revenue generation.
Legacy assessment tools compound the problem: they surface only a partial view of the estate, miss the application dependencies that determine migration sequencing, and stop short of the contract and licensing analysis that makes a migration commercially defensible. According to Kearney’s Cloud 2.0 research, roughly two-thirds of large-scale cloud transformation programs fail to deliver their projected business outcomes – a pattern driven not by cloud readiness but by the quality of the assessment and planning work that precedes migration. Gartner similarly reports that 83 percent of migration projects fail or exceed their budgets and schedules.
A Gemini-Enabled Platform for Modernization Decisions
ModernZ is built natively on Google Cloud – using Gemini, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and Google Cloud Migration Center discovery capabilities – to evaluate enterprise workloads across 81 target architectures simultaneously, including GCE (x86, TPU, GPU, ARM), GKE, Database Services, GCVE, Storage (Hyperdisk & Netapp GCNV), Nutanix NC2, RedHat OpenShift and modern on-premises alternatives. In a single assessment, ModernZ delivers a full TCO model, an application dependency map, a contracts and licensing analysis, a modernization and AI-readiness plan, and a sequenced migration wave plan – compressing multi-month assessment timelines into weeks.
ModernZ Assess, available now on the Google Cloud Marketplace, lets customers run a self-service assessment of their on-premises estate. ModernZ Applied, available via its companion listing, is the fully managed engagement for enterprise-scale programs, delivered by ModernZ’s team of architects and engineers. Both listings allow customers to procure directly through Google Cloud Marketplace and apply existing Google Cloud commitments toward the engagement.
"Simplifying how enterprises procure and deploy critical technologies is a core component of accelerating digital transformation. By bringing ModernZ Assess and ModernZ Applied to Google Cloud Marketplace, ModernZ is providing customers with the trusted infrastructure and streamlined access needed to optimize operations and unlock real-world business value."
— Dai Vu, Managing Director, Marketplace & ISV GTM Programs, Google Cloud
“Enterprises don’t need another discovery tool — they need a definitive answer they can take to the board. ModernZ replaces analysis paralysis with a defensible, board-ready business case in weeks instead of months, revealing exactly which workloads are architecturally primed for AI and which require remediation. Our availability on Google Cloud Marketplace lets enterprises bypass the friction of traditional procurement and transition from analysis to execution instantly.”
— Narayan Bharadwaj, Co-founder and CEO, ModernZ
About ModernZ
ModernZ is a Gemini-enabled modernization assessment platform that delivers definitive, board-ready blueprints for enterprise cloud transformation. The company was co-founded by Narayan Bharadwaj, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, Berkeley Haas and former VP & GM of VMware Cloud Solutions who scaled VMware’s public cloud & cloud on–prem portfolio (including VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Dell, Equinix) from inception to over $1 billion in ARR, and previously led technology product divisions at Salesforce and Oracle; and Ashish Aggarwal, an alumnus of IIT Delhi, Co-Founder and former CTO of Productiv, former VP of Engineering at Postmates, and an infrastructure pioneer who led critical engineering and scale initiatives at Amazon, Microsoft, and eBay. Combining elite enterprise systems expertise with modern AI engineering, ModernZ compresses months of legacy discovery into weeks of actionable, commercially rigorous migration strategy. ModernZ is a Google Cloud Services partner. Learn more at modernz.ai.